Well, what we do here in Antwerna, we have basically two programs, we have an in-house
technology development program where we are being some sort of like intra-entrepreneurs,
so we are developing our own technologies and our own business models in Antwerna at
the moment.
We are working with efficient wood stoves.
Outcomes of improved stoves are incredible, depending on what country you're in.
Styrereal diseases is a huge killer of children under five, but also is acute respiratory
infections, which is caused primarily from smoke in the kitchen.
Generation growth is related to child survival and education is, of course, related to health.
A family can save money by buying less firewood because they buy less firewood, they don't
need as much wood as the forest is left where it is, and then animal families can hopefully
spend more of that resources on things like books.
So, yes, it's a stove, but that means a better stove that won't burn you, that will get the
smoke out of the house, and will help save money is a huge deal to more than half the
population.
Bioligestion systems are widely known in Asia, there are around 40 million of small-scale
bioligestion systems installed.
The smallest one that we've got right now, which is the urban digester, is about a cubic
meter in volume, and that one consumes four to five kilograms of organic food waste a
day, so that's kitchen cuts, kitchen scraps.
The basic concept is you grind your food or your fuel source, you mix it with water,
you add it into your system.
If your system is large enough, per family size, you're able to cook almost completely
with the fire gas.
And for every liter that you add, the same amount comes out, and it's fully digested
organic material, which can be used as fertilizer.
The second unit is a much larger-scale unit, it's for places that have the space to be
able to dig a trench.
And this one can go from four cubic meters all the way up to thousands and thousands
of liters.
I grew up in Alberta, and the main motivator for me to come down here and work on this
was my experience in the oil and gas patch in my early 20s.
I saw some of the most unbelievable environmental tragedies you could imagine, and so I started
to get interested in green energy, I really started to get connected to the alternative
energy world and clean technology, and I really started to see that there was a potential.
And I come home, and I talk to my friends, and they'd be like, oh, this should be done
here, and we should do this, and we should do that, and it was just like dinner conversation
every week, it was the same conversation, but on a different topic, and it was over
and over and over and over again, I got so frustrated with it, I quit my job.
I honestly believe, regardless of whether I'm in this sort of market or not, I really
believe that this has nowhere to go but up.
